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How to find prospects engaging with your founder's and teammates' LinkedIn posts

Track your founder's and teammates' LinkedIn profiles, keep the engagers who fit your ICP, and reach them from the right teammate's account. Step by step.

By the traxy teamPublished Nov 12, 202622 min read

TL;DR: traxy finds the prospects engaging with your teammates' LinkedIn posts. Track your founder's and each teammate's profile under Targeting > People with the teammate relationship, and traxy checks everyone who likes or comments on their posts against your ideal customer profile (ICP), keeps only people with a 50%+ match as leads and shows the post or comment behind each one. The same leads can go to a Slack channel or into a LinkedIn and email campaign that sends from the right teammate's connected accounts after you approve the launch.

This guide is about the whole team: the founder, the sales team and anyone else at your company who posts. It covers who to track, how the engagers are qualified, how to split the leads by teammate, which teammate's account should send, how to avoid contacting the same person twice, and the campaign from test to launch approval. If only you post, start with how to turn people who engage with your own LinkedIn posts into leads, which goes deeper on qualifying, enriching and messaging your own engagers.

traxy wrote this guide about its own product. Product steps come from the traxy docs, and the other tools were checked on their own sites in November 2026.

Which software can find prospects engaging with my teammates' LinkedIn content?

traxy does: you track your founder's and teammates' LinkedIn profiles, and traxy qualifies the people who like or comment on their posts (50%+ ICP match, with the post behind each lead), then runs LinkedIn and email outreach to them from your team's own connected accounts once you approve the campaign. Teamfluence also covers team engagement, and employee advocacy tools such as EveryoneSocial help your team post more; where each fits better is further down.

traxy runs your entire LinkedIn GTM end to end, from finding high intent leads from social intent to enriching and researching each one, to running relevant, personalized LinkedIn and email outreach to them on autopilot. Autopilot starts only after your approval: you test the campaign on sample leads and approve the launch, and then it runs on its own, or you approve every message in a review queue.

The team workflow has seven steps:

Pick the people to track: the founder and every teammate whose posts reach your buyers.
Track each profile in Tracking with the teammate relationship.
Let traxy qualify the engagers against your ICP, and keep your own colleagues and other non-buyers out.
Split the leads with filters and saved views, by teammate or by signal.
Decide who follows up and connect that teammate's LinkedIn account and mailbox as a sender.
Build the campaign with research on each lead, test it on sample leads and approve the launch.
Or route the leads to Slack when a person, not a sequence, should make the first move.

Why do your team's posts reach buyers your company page doesn't?

Because people on LinkedIn follow people. Each teammate has their own network, and the buyers in those networks see and react to a person's post in a way they rarely do with a brand's post. Tracking the whole team turns several separate audiences into one list of qualified leads.

Think about who each person reaches:

The founder usually reaches other founders, executives, investors and the early buyers who followed the company story.
Account executives and SDRs reach the people in their territory and the prospects they have already talked to.
Marketing, product and engineering reach practitioners: the people who feel the problem day to day and often bring a tool to their boss.
Customer success reaches your customers and their peers, who are often buyers at similar companies.

None of these engagers asked to buy anything. A like is attention to a topic, and a comment says more. That is why the next steps matter: traxy checks every engager against your ICP, and the outreach opens on the post they reacted to rather than on a pitch. The company page is still worth tracking as a separate source (Targeting > Companies, by domain or LinkedIn page), but it rarely replaces the people. For a program that gets more of your team posting in the first place, see the B2B employee advocacy guide.

Who on your team should you track?

Track the founder first, then every teammate who posts at least now and then about the problem you solve or the market you sell into. In traxy there are no tracking limits on profiles, posts or company pages, so the question is whose audience contains your buyers, not how many you can add.

Track people who post about your buyers' problems. A teammate who writes about the work your customers do brings engagers who fit. A teammate who mostly posts about hiring or company news brings candidates and peers.
Include people who comment a lot, even if they post rarely. Their recent posts still count, and you can add any single post by URL.
Ask before you track. Tell your teammates what you track and why, and that the leads from their posts may be contacted. It keeps the trust inside the team and helps you agree on who follows up.
Review the list every few weeks. Keep the profiles that bring in qualified leads and pause the ones that don't.

Teammates are one source among many. Who to track on LinkedIn to find leads covers the others (competitors, customers, creators, single posts and company pages) and how to decide what to keep.

How do you track the founder and each teammate in traxy?

Go to Targeting > People, choose Track profile from the New menu, paste the teammate's LinkedIn URL, pick the teammate relationship and confirm. Repeat for each person.

Open Targeting > People and choose Track profile from the New menu.
Paste the LinkedIn profile URL and check that the right person comes back.
Choose the relationship. Use teammate for the founder and employees. The other options are competitor, influencer, investor and custom, so you can also use a custom tag such as "founder" or "sales team" if you want to tell groups apart.
Review and confirm.

What happens next, from the traxy Tracking docs (checked November 2026):

An initial discovery checks the teammate's recent posts for new qualified leads. Adding the same profile again does not start another initial discovery.
Ongoing monitoring follows a managed window of the five most recent posts published after the profile was added.
Older posts outside that window need a specific post request: Targeting > Single posts > New > Track post, paste the URL and choose Find leads. Or paste the post URL into trax, the traxy agent, and say you want its audience. This is the way to pick up a teammate's best post from last quarter.
Managing the list. Filter tracked profiles by relationship or status. When someone leaves the company or stops posting, pause or remove their profile from the profile menu; you can restore it later.

You can also do this from chat. Ask trax to track a list of teammates and it shows an approval card with the values before anything changes. From Claude, ChatGPT or another AI client connected through the traxy MCP, you can list, add, update, pause, remove or restore tracked profiles, for example: "track these four LinkedIn profiles and tag them as teammates."

How do you keep only the engagers who fit your ICP?

traxy scores every person who engages with a tracked teammate's post against your lead criteria, and only people at a 50% ICP match or higher become qualified leads. Each lead shows the post, comment, like or repost behind it, so you always know which teammate's post brought them in.

Set the lead criteria once for the whole team. Under Targeting > Lead criteria, describe the people (roles, departments, seniority, locations) and the companies (size, industry, revenue, funding, keywords) you sell to. Every tracked teammate is checked against the same criteria, so a lead from the founder's post and a lead from an AE's post mean the same thing.

Read the label and the source. Each lead is labeled Warm (a direct signal relevant to your offer), Related (contextual evidence), Activity (a weaker connection to your offer) or ICP match (fit without one of those signals). The label is how strong the evidence is; the ICP match score is how well the person fits. A fit score is not a probability of purchase.

Keep non-buyers out. Team posts draw a particular crowd: your own colleagues liking each other's posts, friends, candidates, recruiters and people who sell what you sell. Use these controls:

Blocklist. Settings > Blocklist excludes company domains and specific people from future lead discovery. Add your own company's domain so colleagues don't show up as leads, plus your existing customers and partners.
Exclusions in Lead criteria. Rule out titles and company types you never sell to, such as recruiters or agencies in your own category.
Do not contact. Settings > Do not contact stops outreach to specific emails or LinkedIn profiles, such as a teammate's friends or investors who engage with every post.
Fit feedback. Mark a lead Good fit or Bad fit with a reason. Feedback records your judgment; it does not rewrite the score by itself.

How do you see which teammate's posts bring in leads?

Open a teammate's profile under Targeting > People: each tracked profile shows the leads it surfaced, their ICP match and the posts they came from. For the whole team, open Insights and set the date range to see lead volume, trends, audience breakdowns and the top profiles or posts bringing in leads.

Use it to coach the team, not only to sell. If the founder's posts about one topic keep bringing Warm leads, that is a topic to write about again. If an AE's post got many reactions and no qualified leads, it reached the wrong audience. Counts across several posts can include the same person more than once, so check the people themselves in Leads. From an AI client, the traxy MCP can read post analytics and qualified leads per post.

How do you split team-post leads with filters and saved views?

Filter Leads down to the audience you want and save it as a shared view. A view built from table filters updates as matching leads change, and campaigns and routes use shared views, so each saved view can feed its own campaign or Slack channel.

Open Leads and add filters for the people, companies, signals or workflow state you need, for example Warm leads at software companies.
Narrow to one post when you need it. A view saved while a post's lead scope is selected keeps that post scope, which is useful for a teammate's launch post or event post.
Split by owner. Assign leads to the teammate who will follow up (Assign, Assign to me, or bulk assign a selection), then filter by assignment. A view of "active leads assigned to Maria" becomes Maria's campaign audience.
Save it. Choose Save as new view, give it a clear name such as "Founder posts, Warm", and choose shared.

You can also ask trax: "show me warm leads at software companies who engaged with our founder's posts." That filters the leads you already have and does not use capacity. One thing to know: when trax saves a search that depends on text, topics or a custom ICP score range, it saves a fixed audience of the leads matched at that time, and new people don't join it. Review it before you use it in a campaign (saved views docs, checked November 2026).

Who should follow up: the person who posted, or sales?

It depends on the relationship the post created. When the prospect reacted to a teammate personally, that teammate (or the person who knows the prospect) is the best first contact; when the post was about a problem and the engager fits a sales territory, the account owner in sales can follow up and mention the post.

The person who posted fits best for comments and repeat engagers. The prospect already knows their name and face, and a reply that picks up the comment reads as a conversation. Founders who sell this way often reply in public first, then send a direct message.
The account owner in sales fits best for likes on general posts and for leads in a defined territory. The message can mention the topic of the post without pretending to know the person.
The person with a warm path fits best when someone on your team already knows the prospect. Nostra, whose sales are founder-led and referral-driven, tracks its customers, board, advisors and employees in traxy; signals flow to Slack, for example when a prospect likes the founder's post, and the person who knows the prospect asks for the intro. Nostra reports 5+ live deals sourced from traxy signals (Nostra case study).

Write the rule down before the first campaign, for example "commenters on the founder's posts go to the founder, everyone else goes to the territory owner", and turn it into saved views and campaigns as above.

Which teammate's account should send the outreach?

Send from the account of the person you chose to follow up, and connect it under that person's own sender name. traxy sends LinkedIn and email outreach from the sender accounts your team connects, so the message comes from a real teammate, not from a shared tool account.

Connect each sender. In Outbound > Sender accounts, choose Add sender, pick the sender name the account belongs to and finish sign-in. Each teammate completes the sign-in for their own account. You can also ask trax to help connect a sender.
Put LinkedIn and email under the same name. Accounts are grouped by sender name, and a sequence that uses LinkedIn and email needs a sender name with both channels connected. Connect the founder's mailbox under the founder's name, the AE's under the AE's.
Review each sender's controls. Limits, active hours and ramp-up apply per account, and a campaign does not bypass them. A founder's account keeps its own pace even when a campaign has many leads. No setting removes LinkedIn's own restriction risk, so keep the limits sensible.
Add an email signature per mailbox. Sequence and one-off emails include it; LinkedIn messages don't.

Then choose that sender in the campaign. The launch review shows the selected sender before anything goes out, so you can check that the founder's audience is about to be contacted from the founder's account (sender accounts docs, checked November 2026).

How do you avoid contacting the same person twice?

traxy keeps one lead per person, holds each lead in one active campaign and sequence at a time, and shows at launch who is skipped because another campaign holds them or contacted them before. Assignments and shared notes cover the rest.

One lead, several signals. When the same prospect likes the founder's post and comments on an AE's post, they stay one lead with two recorded signals, not two leads.
Campaign priority. Campaigns run in priority order, so one lead never gets two campaigns at once, and the launch review skips leads another unfinished campaign holds. If the founder's campaign and an AE's campaign overlap, put the one that should win higher.
One active sequence per lead. A lead can be in only one active sequence at a time.
Launch review skips. Before launch you see leads held by another unfinished campaign and people a completed campaign contacted before.
Assign owners and leave notes. Assignment shows who is working the lead, and notes are shared with the workspace, so a teammate who wants to message someone by hand can see who already did.

If part of your team still messages people outside traxy, the habits in how to stop two people on your team from contacting the same LinkedIn lead cover that case.

How do you turn team-post leads into a LinkedIn and email campaign?

Create a campaign with the saved view as its audience, describe the research you want on each lead and your offer, choose the teammate's sender, and review the LinkedIn and email sequence traxy prepares. Build it in Outbound > Campaigns or ask trax.

Create the campaign. Outbound > Create campaign, or open trax and describe it. Choose the shared view (for example "Founder posts, Warm") under Audience.
Describe the research. A campaign researches each lead for the facts you ask for before any message is prepared. For team-post leads, useful facts are what the person said on the post, their role, what their company does and whether it shows the situation the post was about. If a required fact isn't found, the lead stays in traxy and you can choose to skip it in the campaign.
Let traxy group the leads. Leads are grouped by signal and each group gets its own message variant personalized with the evidence, so commenters can get a different opener from people who only liked the post.
Review the sequence. LinkedIn steps (connection request, message) and email can run in one campaign, and a wait can depend on an event such as connection acceptance.
Choose senders and the delivery mode. Under Senders and delivery, pick the teammate's sender name with every channel the steps need, then choose whether you approve each message or messages send automatically.

An example brief for trax: "Use the shared view of Warm leads from our founder's posts. Research how each company handles outbound today, then prepare a short LinkedIn connection note and a follow-up email from the founder that pick up the post they engaged with." Run one campaign per teammate or per signal at the same time if you like; priority keeps them from overlapping. The full outbound side is on LinkedIn outbound with traxy, and the steps are in the campaign docs.

How do you test the campaign and approve the launch?

Ask trax to test the plan on sample leads, read the research and drafts with nothing sent, then open Launch, check who joins, who is skipped and which teammate sends, and confirm. That confirmation is the launch approval.

Test on sample leads. A test prepares research and message previews and sends nothing. Check that the research supports each claim, that the post reference matches what the person did, and that the tone sounds like the teammate whose name is on it. Show the drafts to that teammate before launch.
Read the launch review. It lists who will join, leads excluded because another unfinished campaign holds them, people contacted by a completed campaign before, the selected sender or destination, the message steps and the delivery mode.
Pick the approval mode. In approval mode, each message waits in the campaign's review queue until someone chooses Approve or Approve all; a founder who wants to see every message before it goes out from their account can use this. In automatic mode, the approved campaign runs on autopilot and sends on its own. Switching to automatic does not release messages already waiting for approval.
After launch. Replies, unsubscribe requests and hard bounces stop the sequence for that lead, and conversations land in one inbox across LinkedIn and email. Delivery can still wait for sender availability, schedule and limits.

Details are in the review and launch docs (checked November 2026).

How do you route team-post leads to Slack instead?

Connect Slack, then add a route from a saved view of team-post leads to a Slack channel with Auto or Manual delivery. Use this when the right first move is a person: a founder's reply in public, an intro from the teammate who knows the prospect, or a rep's call.

Connect Slack. Integrations > Slack, authorize, set the default channel and use Test trigger.
Add a route. In the Routes tab choose Add route, pick All leads or a saved view, choose the destination channel, and choose Auto or Manual. For Auto, review the ICP match threshold for that destination.
Send existing leads by hand. Automatic routes apply to leads entering the view from then on; to send leads already in it, select them in Leads and use Send to.
Turn on the extras. Slack can also post repeat-engagement events (a qualified lead active again, for example on a second teammate's post), lead-reply notifications and a daily summary.

A useful setup is one channel per teammate, each fed by a view of their assigned leads. Routes can also send a view to a webhook, Clay, Zapier or n8n if your team works there (routes docs, checked November 2026).

Can you run this from Claude or ChatGPT?

Yes. Connect the traxy MCP to Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor or Grok and you can track teammates, list and research the leads from their posts, then draft, test and launch the campaign, manage sequences and senders and answer replies from chat. The AI shows what it will do and waits for your yes in chat before anything sends or launches. Setup is in the traxy docs.

Where Teamfluence or an employee advocacy tool fits better

traxy is the vendor writing this, so here are the criteria we used and where other tools fit better. The criteria: does the tool find the people engaging with your team's posts, does it check them against your ICP, and does it run the outreach itself or pass the person to another tool. Each claim below comes from the vendor's own page, checked November 2026.

Teamfluence fits better if you want your team's likes, comments, visits and other signals in one feed, including visits to your company page: its site says it "collects likes, comments, visits and other signals, from people engaging with your team and company" and "We catch profile visits on your teammates' profiles and your company page" (teamfluence.com). It also fits if your next step lives in other tools: it says it can "send a Slack alert, create a HubSpot contact, fire a webhook to Clay", and its own guide says qualified people go to "HubSpot, Salesforce, Slack, a webhook, your sequencer or your AI agent" (Teamfluence guide). traxy picks up profile views of the sender accounts you connect. traxy fits better when you want the same tool to research each lead and run the LinkedIn and email outreach from your teammates' accounts. More on the differences in Teamfluence alternatives.
EveryoneSocial, an employee advocacy platform, fits better if your problem is that the team doesn't post yet: it calls itself "The AI-powered advocacy platform for activating execs and staff" and says it "activates more of your organization and keeps them sharing, week after week" (everyonesocial.com). An advocacy tool gets more posts out; traxy works on the people who engage once the posts are live. Many teams need both.

What are the limits?

Older posts. Ongoing monitoring follows each tracked profile's five most recent posts published after you added it; to pick up an older post, add it with Track post.
Capacity. Qualified leads use your workspace's lead capacity when they are first delivered; rediscovery, extra signals and enrichment don't count the person again. When capacity is reached, new discovery pauses. See pricing for plan sizes.
Engagement is not a decision to buy. A like on a teammate's post is attention. The ICP match is fit, not a probability of purchase.
Sending needs connected accounts. Outreach goes out from the LinkedIn and email accounts your teammates connect, within each account's limits, active hours and ramp-up.
One active sequence per lead. A lead already in another campaign is skipped at launch.
No promise of results. traxy finds the people and runs the outreach; whether they reply depends on your offer, your list and your message.

FAQ

Can traxy track my founder's posts if I'm the one running outbound?

Yes. Track the founder's profile under Targeting > People with the teammate relationship. The leads land in the shared Leads list, and you can send from your own sender account or the founder's, whichever you connect.

Is there a limit on how many teammates I can track?

No. traxy has no tracking limits on profiles, posts or company pages. What limits your results is lead capacity, since each new qualified lead uses it once.

Does everyone who likes a teammate's post become a lead?

No. traxy scores every engager on fit, and only people at a 50% ICP match or higher become qualified leads. Add your own company's domain to the Blocklist so colleagues who like each other's posts stay out.

What if a prospect engages with posts from several teammates?

They stay one lead with several recorded signals, and Slack can tell you about repeat engagement. The campaign in the highest priority gets them, so they are not messaged by two teammates' campaigns at once.

Can each teammate approve the messages that go out under their name?

Use approval mode: each message waits in the campaign's review queue until someone chooses Approve or Approve all, and you can edit a message and approve the saved copy. Agree inside your team on who reviews each campaign's queue.

Will traxy message people without our approval?

No. You test the campaign on sample leads with nothing sent and confirm the launch review. After that, the approved campaign sends on its own, or you approve every message in a review queue. Replies, unsubscribes and hard bounces stop the sequence.

Should we also track our company page?

Yes, as a separate source. Track it under Targeting > Companies by domain or LinkedIn page, and traxy reads its page posts for engagers who fit your ICP. Tracking a company page finds engagers with its posts, not all your employees' audiences, so keep tracking the people too.

What happens when a teammate leaves?

Pause or remove their profile in Tracking so monitoring stops; leads already found stay in Leads. Before you remove their sender account, check which campaigns and sequences use it: removal can stop future messages but does not retract messages already delivered.

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